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{{Infobox Film| name = Live Free or Die Hard
(Die Hard 4.0)| image = LFoDHPoster.jpg| caption = Live Free or Die Hard official movie poster| director = Len Wiseman
Story:
Mark Bomback
[David Marconi
Screenplay:
Mark Bomback
[Timothy Olyphant
Justin Long
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Maggie Q| editing = Nicolas De Toth| distributor = [20th Century Fox, [2007
July 4, 2007
July 6, 2007
July 17, 2007
August 8, 2007
September 7, 2007]|accessdate=2007-06-30-->| country = | language = English language| preceded_by = Die Hard with a Vengeance] film series. It stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, the protagonist of the first three films. The film takes place some 19 years after the first film, and sees McClane face a gang of Cyber-terrorism. The film's North American release date was June 27, 2007. The film was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired (magazine) magazine by John Carlin.

Plot At the start of the film, a terrorist breaches an FBI facility's computer system, and computer hackers are assassinated by the terrorist mastermind Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), instead of being paid for their collaboration. The FBI, unaware of the killings, dispatches New York City Police Department Police Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) to visit a known hacker, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long), as part of their investigation regarding the breach. Gabriel's henchmen attempt to assassinate McClane and Farrell, but their targets escape. McClane transports Farrell to the FBI's Washington DC headquarters and its head, Assistant Director Bowman (Cliff Curtis), in the midst of a shutdown of the traffic system in DC. The stock market is manipulated shortly afterward, causing it to crash.

McClane is ordered to take Farrell into protective custody, and Gabriel sends more henchmen to kill the pair. McClane and Farrell evade their assassins again, and as the country's infrastructure is threatened with a major break down, Farrell tells McClane the terrorists are initiating a fire sale#Use in fiction and that major utilities would be next. The detective and the hacker travel to a power hub in West Virginia to defend it, finding that the terrorists are already there. McClane battles terrorists while Farrell undoes the damage done to the computer system. They are contacted by Gabriel, who finds out that McClane has killed his lover Mai Linh (Maggie Q) and angrily re-routes gas lines to destroy the hub in a gas explosion. McClane and Farrell escape once more, and on Farrell's advice, the pair visit his hacker friend the Warlock (Kevin Smith) for help. At the Warlock's home, they find out about Gabriel's background and attempt to hack into the terrorist's systems. Gabriel contacts the detective at the Warlock's home via webcam, and he shows that he has McClane's daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) as a hostage. While McClane distracts Gabriel in conversation, Warlock determines Gabriel's location, at a hijacked NSA building.

McClane and Farrell travel to the NSA building, and the detective combats terrorists while Farrell discovers and tries to undo Gabriel's plan to steal backup financial information from servers in the building. Farrell is able to lock the terrorists out of their server hack, rendering the task incomplete, and then he is taken hostage by the terrorists. With McClane after them, Gabriel and his henchmen flee the building with their hostages. McClane manages to hijack one of the escaping trucks and pursues Gabriel and the hostages. Gabriel renders a hack to deceive the pilot of a F-35 Lightning II jet to attack McClane's truck. The jet engages McClane destroying much of the freeway in the process, but the detective is able to escape. He tracks Gabriel to a warehouse, where the terrorist is forcing Farrell to undo the encryption at gunpoint. McClane and Farrell are able to kill Gabriel and his men before they force Farrell to decrypt the lock, resolving the crisis. The FBI arrives shortly after to tend to the wounds of Farrell, McClane, and his daughter. The final shot is McClane and his daughter leaving in an ambulance.

Cast {| class="wikitable"|-! Actor! Role|-| Bruce Willis ]|-| Justin Long ] || Thomas Gabriel|-| Cliff Curtis ] || Officer Joe Lambert|-| Maggie Q ] || John McClane#Lucy McClane|-| Tim Russ ] || Warlock / Freddie|-| Christina Chang ] || Rajh|-| Matt O'Leary ] || Rand|-|Jonathan Sadowski || Trey|}

Production The film's plot is based on an earlier script entitled WW3.com by David Marconi, screenwriter of Enemy of the State (film). Using a Wired (magazine) article entitled "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin, Marconi crafted a screenplay about a cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. After the 9-11 attacks, the project was stalled, only to be resurrected several years later and rewritten into Live Free or Die Hard by Doug Richardson and eventually by Mark Bomback.

Willis said in 2005 in film that the film would be called Die Hard 4.5, as it revolves around computers and cyber-terrorism. IGN later reported the film was to be called Die Hard: Reset instead. 20th Century Fox later announced the title as Live Free or Die Hard and set a release date of June 29, 2007 with filming to begin in September 2006. The title is based on the state motto of New Hampshire, "Live Free or Die," which is attributed to a quote from General John Stark. International trailers use the Die Hard 4.0 title, as the film was released outside North America with that title.

Filming for Live Free or Die Hard started in downtown Baltimore, Maryland on September 23, 2006. Willis was injured January 24, 2007 during a fight scene, when he was kicked above his right eye. The injury was regarded as "no big deal" and Willis saw a doctor and went home for the rest of the day.

Bruce Willis' stunt double, Larry Rippenkroeger, was seriously injured when he fell twenty-five feet to the pavement. He suffered broken bones in his face and fractures in both wrists. Production was temporarily shut down. Willis picked up the tab at area hotels for Rippenkroeger's parents and visited him a number of times at the hospital.

The involvement of McClane's daughter in the film was previously considered for Die Hard with a Vengeance, and was used in the video game Die Hard: Vendetta. It was speculated that Bruce Willis' real life daughter Rumer Willis, who was born the same year that the original Die Hard was released, was a prime candidate for the part of Lucy McClane. Jessica Simpson, Wafah Dufour and Britney Spears had previously auditioned for the role; Paris Hilton had been considered for the role, as had Taylor Fry, who played Lucy in the original Die Hard movie in 1988. The role of Lucy eventually went to Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The Social Security Datacenter exteriors were shot at Diamond Ranch High School in California. List of movies filmed at Diamond Ranch High School, at the Internet Movie Database.

Rating The past three installments in the Die Hard series have all been rated R by the MPAA. However, Live Free or Die Hard sparked controversy because it was edited to obtain a PG-13 rating. Bruce Willis was upset with the studio's decision, stating, “I really wanted this one to live up to the promise of the first one, which I always thought was the only really good one.” to Vanity Fair (magazine). “That’s a studio decision that is becoming more and more common, because they’re trying to reach a broader audience. It seems almost a courageous move to give a picture an R rating these days. But we still made a pretty hardcore, smashmouth film.”Willis later confirmed that it was PG-13, but thought that viewers unaware that it was not an R-rated film would not suspect it in watching it, due to the level and intensity of the action, and the usage of some amount of profanity, albeit less than the previous films. He even claimed that this film was the best of the four by saying “It’s unbelievable. I just saw it last week. I personally think, it’s better than the first one.”

Reception As of August 31, 2007, the film had a score of 80% with a certified "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 178 reviews (143 Fresh, 35 Rotten) with the consensus being it is "an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick" and a score of a generally favorable 69% on Metacritic based on 32 reviews. The movie has also received generally favorable reviews in The Washington Post{{Cite news]|last=Hornaday |first=Ann|date=June 29 2007 (who scored the movie as a four out of five stars).http://movies.ign.com/articles/799/799604p1.html On [Ebert and Roeper, film critic Richard Roeper and guest critic Katherine Tulich gave the film "Two Thumbs Up", with Richard Roeper opining that the film is "not the best or most exciting Die Hard, but it is a lot of fun", and remarking, "Willis is in top form in his career-defining role." Richard Roeper and Jennifer Tulich on an episode of Ebert & Roeper. Michael Medved gave the film three and a half out of four stars, opining, "a smart script and spectacular special effects make this the best Die Hard of 'em all." Michael Medved's Review of Live Free or Die Hard; michaelmedved.com

Live Free or Die Hard made $9.1 million in its first day of release, the best opening day take of any film in the Die Hard franchise (not taking inflation into account). On its opening weekend Live Free or Die Hard made $33.3 million ($48.3 million counting Wednesday and Thursday). As of October 11, 2007, Live Free or Die Hard has made $134.4 million domestically, and $237 millon overseas, a total of $372.4 million. It is currently the most successful movie in the franchise.

DVD Release The DVD is set for release on November 20, 2007 in an unrated version and theatrical version. Fox has also announced the Blu-Ray release will only feature the PG-13 "theatrical" cut which runs at 129 minutes. While the DVD released unrated Cut runs 132 minutes.

Soundtrack

Video game A Live Free or Die Hard (video game) appeared on the ESRB ratings board for the Xbox 360. Kotaku has speculated that the game might become a Xbox Live Arcade title.

References External links

{{Infobox Film| name = Live Free or Die Hard
(Die Hard 4.0)| image = LFoDHPoster.jpg| caption = Live Free or Die Hard official movie poster| director = Len Wiseman
Story:
Mark Bomback
[David Marconi
Screenplay:
Mark Bomback
[Timothy Olyphant
Justin Long
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Maggie Q| editing = Nicolas De Toth| distributor = [20th Century Fox, [2007
July 4, 2007
July 6, 2007
July 17, 2007
August 8, 2007
September 7, 2007]|accessdate=2007-06-30-->| country = | language = English language| preceded_by = Die Hard with a Vengeance] film series. It stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, the protagonist of the first three films. The film takes place some 19 years after the first film, and sees McClane face a gang of Cyber-terrorism. The film's North American release date was June 27, 2007. The film was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired (magazine) magazine by John Carlin.

Plot At the start of the film, a terrorist breaches an FBI facility's computer system, and computer hackers are assassinated by the terrorist mastermind Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant), instead of being paid for their collaboration. The FBI, unaware of the killings, dispatches New York City Police Department Police Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) to visit a known hacker, Matthew Farrell (Justin Long), as part of their investigation regarding the breach. Gabriel's henchmen attempt to assassinate McClane and Farrell, but their targets escape. McClane transports Farrell to the FBI's Washington DC headquarters and its head, Assistant Director Bowman (Cliff Curtis), in the midst of a shutdown of the traffic system in DC. The stock market is manipulated shortly afterward, causing it to crash.

McClane is ordered to take Farrell into protective custody, and Gabriel sends more henchmen to kill the pair. McClane and Farrell evade their assassins again, and as the country's infrastructure is threatened with a major break down, Farrell tells McClane the terrorists are initiating a fire sale#Use in fiction and that major utilities would be next. The detective and the hacker travel to a power hub in West Virginia to defend it, finding that the terrorists are already there. McClane battles terrorists while Farrell undoes the damage done to the computer system. They are contacted by Gabriel, who finds out that McClane has killed his lover Mai Linh (Maggie Q) and angrily re-routes gas lines to destroy the hub in a gas explosion. McClane and Farrell escape once more, and on Farrell's advice, the pair visit his hacker friend the Warlock (Kevin Smith) for help. At the Warlock's home, they find out about Gabriel's background and attempt to hack into the terrorist's systems. Gabriel contacts the detective at the Warlock's home via webcam, and he shows that he has McClane's daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) as a hostage. While McClane distracts Gabriel in conversation, Warlock determines Gabriel's location, at a hijacked NSA building.

McClane and Farrell travel to the NSA building, and the detective combats terrorists while Farrell discovers and tries to undo Gabriel's plan to steal backup financial information from servers in the building. Farrell is able to lock the terrorists out of their server hack, rendering the task incomplete, and then he is taken hostage by the terrorists. With McClane after them, Gabriel and his henchmen flee the building with their hostages. McClane manages to hijack one of the escaping trucks and pursues Gabriel and the hostages. Gabriel renders a hack to deceive the pilot of a F-35 Lightning II jet to attack McClane's truck. The jet engages McClane destroying much of the freeway in the process, but the detective is able to escape. He tracks Gabriel to a warehouse, where the terrorist is forcing Farrell to undo the encryption at gunpoint. McClane and Farrell are able to kill Gabriel and his men before they force Farrell to decrypt the lock, resolving the crisis. The FBI arrives shortly after to tend to the wounds of Farrell, McClane, and his daughter. The final shot is McClane and his daughter leaving in an ambulance.

Cast {| class="wikitable"|-! Actor! Role|-| Bruce Willis ]|-| Justin Long ] || Thomas Gabriel|-| Cliff Curtis ] || Officer Joe Lambert|-| Maggie Q ] || John McClane#Lucy McClane|-| Tim Russ ] || Warlock / Freddie|-| Christina Chang ] || Rajh|-| Matt O'Leary ] || Rand|-|Jonathan Sadowski || Trey|}

Production The film's plot is based on an earlier script entitled WW3.com by David Marconi, screenwriter of Enemy of the State (film). Using a Wired (magazine) article entitled "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin, Marconi crafted a screenplay about a cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. After the 9-11 attacks, the project was stalled, only to be resurrected several years later and rewritten into Live Free or Die Hard by Doug Richardson and eventually by Mark Bomback.

Willis said in 2005 in film that the film would be called Die Hard 4.5, as it revolves around computers and cyber-terrorism. IGN later reported the film was to be called Die Hard: Reset instead. 20th Century Fox later announced the title as Live Free or Die Hard and set a release date of June 29, 2007 with filming to begin in September 2006. The title is based on the state motto of New Hampshire, "Live Free or Die," which is attributed to a quote from General John Stark. International trailers use the Die Hard 4.0 title, as the film was released outside North America with that title.

Filming for Live Free or Die Hard started in downtown Baltimore, Maryland on September 23, 2006. Willis was injured January 24, 2007 during a fight scene, when he was kicked above his right eye. The injury was regarded as "no big deal" and Willis saw a doctor and went home for the rest of the day.

Bruce Willis' stunt double, Larry Rippenkroeger, was seriously injured when he fell twenty-five feet to the pavement. He suffered broken bones in his face and fractures in both wrists. Production was temporarily shut down. Willis picked up the tab at area hotels for Rippenkroeger's parents and visited him a number of times at the hospital.

The involvement of McClane's daughter in the film was previously considered for Die Hard with a Vengeance, and was used in the video game Die Hard: Vendetta. It was speculated that Bruce Willis' real life daughter Rumer Willis, who was born the same year that the original Die Hard was released, was a prime candidate for the part of Lucy McClane. Jessica Simpson, Wafah Dufour and Britney Spears had previously auditioned for the role; Paris Hilton had been considered for the role, as had Taylor Fry, who played Lucy in the original Die Hard movie in 1988. The role of Lucy eventually went to Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

The Social Security Datacenter exteriors were shot at Diamond Ranch High School in California. List of movies filmed at Diamond Ranch High School, at the Internet Movie Database.

Rating The past three installments in the Die Hard series have all been rated R by the MPAA. However, Live Free or Die Hard sparked controversy because it was edited to obtain a PG-13 rating. Bruce Willis was upset with the studio's decision, stating, “I really wanted this one to live up to the promise of the first one, which I always thought was the only really good one.” to Vanity Fair (magazine). “That’s a studio decision that is becoming more and more common, because they’re trying to reach a broader audience. It seems almost a courageous move to give a picture an R rating these days. But we still made a pretty hardcore, smashmouth film.”Willis later confirmed that it was PG-13, but thought that viewers unaware that it was not an R-rated film would not suspect it in watching it, due to the level and intensity of the action, and the usage of some amount of profanity, albeit less than the previous films. He even claimed that this film was the best of the four by saying “It’s unbelievable. I just saw it last week. I personally think, it’s better than the first one.”

Reception As of August 31, 2007, the film had a score of 80% with a certified "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 178 reviews (143 Fresh, 35 Rotten) with the consensus being it is "an efficient, action-packed summer popcorn flick" and a score of a generally favorable 69% on Metacritic based on 32 reviews. The movie has also received generally favorable reviews in The Washington Post{{Cite news]|last=Hornaday |first=Ann|date=June 29 2007 (who scored the movie as a four out of five stars).http://movies.ign.com/articles/799/799604p1.html On [Ebert and Roeper, film critic Richard Roeper and guest critic Katherine Tulich gave the film "Two Thumbs Up", with Richard Roeper opining that the film is "not the best or most exciting Die Hard, but it is a lot of fun", and remarking, "Willis is in top form in his career-defining role." Richard Roeper and Jennifer Tulich on an episode of Ebert & Roeper. Michael Medved gave the film three and a half out of four stars, opining, "a smart script and spectacular special effects make this the best Die Hard of 'em all." Michael Medved's Review of Live Free or Die Hard; michaelmedved.com

Live Free or Die Hard made $9.1 million in its first day of release, the best opening day take of any film in the Die Hard franchise (not taking inflation into account). On its opening weekend Live Free or Die Hard made $33.3 million ($48.3 million counting Wednesday and Thursday). As of October 11, 2007, Live Free or Die Hard has made $134.4 million domestically, and $237 millon overseas, a total of $372.4 million. It is currently the most successful movie in the franchise.

DVD Release The DVD is set for release on November 20, 2007 in an unrated version and theatrical version. Fox has also announced the Blu-Ray release will only feature the PG-13 "theatrical" cut which runs at 129 minutes. While the DVD released unrated Cut runs 132 minutes.

Soundtrack

Video game A Live Free or Die Hard (video game) appeared on the ESRB ratings board for the Xbox 360. Kotaku has speculated that the game might become a Xbox Live Arcade title.

References External links



 

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